can some help overthere????

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name = KASEY, ST. ALBERT, AB, CANADA
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com: = Hello Peter!
NAME THIS CRITTER...SVP...(see below) ARE THEY HARMLESS? ARE THEY
BENEFICIAL POLLINATORS? MY HUSBAND HAS AN ALLERGY TO BEE/WASP STINGS. WE
WANT OUR DECK  TO BE A SAFE PLACE. CAN THE BEES/WASPS BE MOVED SAFELY?
ARE THEY PREPARING A NEW HOME?

They are in nest five feet above our backyard deck in a flowering vine
which is attached to a trellis that is bolted to the house.
Could you advise us about our unusual new insects,please.They appear to
be in
the wasp not bee "family". They have 3 sections, are all black with
white rings on their tiny bums and white crescents near their eyes.
Their wings fold up into long, very thin black "gossamer" membranes
overlapping? (Hmmm...Did I see a pair on each side???). The Hornet type
nest is the size of a volleyball and its entrance is the size of a
nickle. While I watch the nest,(arms length away) they ignore me and fly
in and out. But it seems like there are only about 5 of them. One looks
a little different,larger a queen ? Once one of them came out of the
nest and began drumming his bottom on the nest,while he clung onto the
nest.(I don't remember if it was his wings that were keeping him in that
position but maybe he was just adding more siding to his
house.Immediately,three "wasps" flew into the nest at once from the
garden, as if they had been called to arms. Interesting behaviour. Maybe
the behaviour helps to I.D. the critters. Hope you can help us. Thanks
very much for your !
time!!!
Kasey & Lou





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Jan Tempelman
Annie Romein-Verschoorpad 2-4
NL 4103 VE Culemborg
tel.:0345-524433
mobile: 06 10719917
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